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Charlotte's conversion is hardly unique. The number of Catholics in Houston and Atlanta has tripled in the past decade; the nation's first new Catholic university in 40 years, Ave Maria, is under construction in Naples, Fla. Pizza billionaire and Michigan native Tom Monaghan, a conservative Catholic, is bankrolling the $200 million campus, along with a scholarship program for the children of Florida migrant laborers, and many regard the project as a potent symbol of Southern Catholicism's growing theological and political clout. All told, Catholics still make up only about 12% of the South's population...
...Houston, Texas and Pforzheimer House...
...produced some fine work in the modernist vein, like his own Glass House. But modernism's refusal of historical reference made him restless. In 1984, with his Chippendale-topped AT&T building in Manhattan, he proclaimed himself postmodern. He was capable of very good buildings, like Pennzoil Place in Houston, and mere concoctions, like so many of his later-life office towers. And for a while in the 1930s his enthusiasms included fascism, a nasty episode of which he later repented. In a long, nimble career, his only constant was change. --By Richard Lacayo...
...director of P&G's Multicultural Business Development Organization, a unit the conglomerate created in 1999 to reach African, Asian and Hispanic Americans. "We Hispanics like to see who's going to put toda la carne al asador," says Alex L??pez Negrete, president of Lopez Negrete Communications, a Houston-based Hispanic marketing company. "All the meat on the grill. That's who wins...
...victims' medical records. Unique marks--moles, scars, tattoos--can also prove decisive in making a positive identification. All these data are fed into computers at the DVI Information Management Center in Phuket, which tries to match victims to families. "It isn't rocket science," says Robert Jensen, president of Houston-based disaster-management firm Kenyon, which is doing forensic and mortuary work. "It's harder than rocket science because it's blended with human emotion...